Death Finds a Way: A Janie Riley Mystery by Lorine McGinnis Schulze. Janie Riley is an avid genealogist with a habit of stumbling on to dead bodies. She and her husband head to Salt Lake City Utah to research Janie's elusive 4th great-grandmother. But her search into the past leads her to a dark secret.
A: The most abundant isotope of magnesium has 12 neutrons; it is therefore, technically known as magnesium-24. Calculating the number of neutrons in an isotope of any element involves subtracting that element's atomic number from its atomic weight. Magnesium's number is 12, and its weight is just over 24.
The Atomic Number of an element is always equal to the number of protons. The Mass Number of an element is equal to the protons added to the neutrons. The element Sodium has an atomic number of 11 and an average atomic mass of 22.98 which makes the mass number 23. Therefore . An atomic number of 11 means this atom will have 11 protons. A mass number of 23 means 23 - 11 this atom will have 12 neutrons. Since this atom is neutral the positive protons must be equal to the negative electrons.